6 Most Rare Countries Visited By Tourists, Some In Asia

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JAKARTA - Currently, almost all parts of the earth can be explored. The explorers have climbed the world's tallest mountains and taken samples from the deepest subglacial lakes in Antarctica. However, there are some corners of the earth that are basically still not mapped by travelers or scientists. Here are some of the coolest and most rarely explored places around the world to launch Mental Foss, Friday, August 15.

This is home to 14 ethnic groups on Amazon and is one of the most isolated places in the world based on its location. It is estimated that around 2000 natives live in an area as wide as Austria. The rights of these tribes to live in isolation are also protected by Brazilian government agencies which are also tasked with preventing outsiders from visiting customary areas.

Home to temperate rainforests, glaciers, fjords, and hot springs, northern Patagonia is one of Chile's largest landscapes in Chile. This region is the country's most sparsely populated region and has only been accessible via highways since the 1980s. The North Patagonia Ice Square remains one of the largest chunks of ice outside the polar region, although, like many glaciers in South America, this ice sheet has shrunk due to climate change.

Russia's eastern Peninsula is home to some of the most spectacular volcanic activity on Earth, with more than 300 volcanoes, including one that has continued to erupt since 1996. The Peninsula is also home to a variety of salmon species and is a habitat for brown bears. The region was closed to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and even before that, only 400,000 Soviets (all have military permits) were allowed to live in Kamchatka, which is approximately the same extent as California.

Many subtropic forests located on the steepest slopes of the Himalayanmost span are almost untouched by human activity. These forests are an important area for wildlife: Deep in the forest in Kachin State, Myanmar, there is the largest tiger nature reserve in the world. This area is also home to bears, red pandas, and siamang.

This remote area of western Papua New Guinea has a Hindenburg Wall, a limestone plateau network that is more than one mile high. This 30-mile stretch of cliffs has an almost unperturbed ecosystem high above ground level. A biology survey in the region in 2013 found 1,108 animal and plant species, nearly 100 of which are new to science.

The largest national park in New Zealand was formed by glaciers and has some of the oldest rocks in the country. Its vast wildlife is home to the unique diversity of animals, such as takahul, an endemic bird that cannot fly and is thought to have been extinct for decades until it was rediscovered in this park in 1948, and kryptovisitus, the only nokturnal parrot that cannot fly in the world. Fiordland, which covers 2.9 million hectares, is one of the largest lands in the Southern Hemisphere.